January 19, 2023

Digital model of St. George's Cathedral of St. George's Monastery

Laser scanning of the cathedral was carried out and its parametric model was created with the introduction of digital information.


December 28, 2022

Holy Faces of Velikyi Novgorod

The film "Holy Faces of Ancient Novgorod", produced by the company 12KADR in conjunction with the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Novgorod State Museum, is now available on the Premier TV channel. The film is devoted to the discovery of the pre-Mongol frescoes of St. George's Cathedral in the Yuriev Monastery in Velikyi Novgorod and showcases all stages of their study. About unique frescoes tell scientists, who managed to find and excavate them, restorers and museum staff, who make a great work on putting together the broken frescoes' fragments like puzzle pieces, and religious representatives, who did their best to return the precious finds to the treasure house of early Russian art.


August 4, 2022

Pre-Mongolian frescoes of St. George's Cathedral discovered outside the temple on the territory of the St. George's Monastery

The Novgorod architectural and archaeological team of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered on the territory of the monastery the place of occurrence of frescoes of the 12th century, knocked down from the walls of the cathedral during the repair of the 1820s, and moved from the temple to the outside at the same time


December 30, 2021

New archeology. Special Report – Russia 24

With the development of technology, it has become possible to conduct more thorough and in-depth studies of historical finds and compile the most complete and reliable picture of the past. Russian scientific organizations and universities within the framework of national projects receive grant support for the development of their instrumental base and educational programs. How is archaeological research carried out with the help of natural-scientific high-tech methods?


December 9, 2021

Russian and Italian scientists examine the frescoes of St. George's Cathedral of the Yuryev Monastery

To study painting at the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Laboratory of Architectural Archeology and Interdisciplinary Study of Architectural Monuments was created


August 5, 2021

Ancient Novgorod frescoes under the microscope

The art of ancient Russian frescoes is verified by the methods of exact sciences